fuchsia

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see also: Fuchsia

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Pronunciation

• enPR: fū'shə, IPA: /ˈfjuːʃə/

Noun

fuchsia (plural fuchsias)

1. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
   • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)

     Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves

2. A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

   Synonyms: magenta

    

Translations

• French: fuchsia
• German: Fuchsie
• Italian: fucsia
• Portuguese: fúcsia
• Russian: фу́ксия
• Spanish: fucsia

Translations

• French: fuchsia
• Italian: fucsia
• Portuguese: fúcsia
• Russian: фу́ксия
• Spanish: fucsia

Adjective

fuchsia (not comparable)

1. Having a purplish-red colour.

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Fuchsia

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Proper noun

1. A female given name
   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

     […] the attic, which since the earliest days Fuchsia could remember had been for her a world undesecrate.

   • 2012, William Shurtleff, ‎Akiko Aoyagi, History of Yuba - The Film That Forms Atop Heated Soymilk (1587-2012)

     Slater quotes from a new book titled Sichuan Cookery, by Fuchsia Dunlop, the BBC's East Asia specialist.

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